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Re: Exploit code for PalmOS
From: gswallow () AI ORG (Greg Swallow)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:33:51 -0500
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Philip Rowlands wrote:
IIRC, the Palm defaults to "Beam Receive On", in order to receive electronic address cards, applications etc. It may be possible to transmit a malformed address card to cause the Palm to crash or lose data.
Mmmmmmm...infrared virii. Imagine--a virus that automatically spreads through the IR port *and* changes the channels on any TV set it has IR codes for to 666 (or 66 if the TV doesn't have that many channels). Sounds like fun. Aren't Furbies IR-capable? Greg Swallow -- Assistant System Administrator (whew!) -- Access Indiana http://www.ai.org -- gswallow () ai org -- (317) 233-2908 -- NASDAQ: EGOV
Current thread:
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Darren Moffat - Solaris Sustaining Engineering (Jun 15)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Eddie (Jun 15)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Philip Rowlands (Jun 15)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Aviram Jenik (Jun 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Oliver Friedrichs (Jun 15)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Greg Swallow (Jun 16)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Crispin Cowan (Jun 16)
- Re: Exploit code for PalmOS Blue Boar (Jun 17)